Hi everyone! So happy to be here.
Hello. I'm Rachel a Facilitator and Workshop Experience Designer 🙌 (Roles for facilitators have all sorts of names and descriptions 😉 Interested in what other facilitators call themselves check out my thread here)
I have about 18 years experience across design thinking, brand and creative strategy, workshop creation, and facilitation.
Things I love:
📚 Reading and I probably have way too many books on my reading list right now; don’t ever hesitate to ask for a book recommendation.
🐶 My two pups—Fezzik (a 130 lb Shepard Mastiff) and Missy (a German Shepard)
Fun Fact:
⚙️ We turned our guest room into a Makerspace — we realized we had more hobbies than friends lol
Where I Work Best. I really have designed my home office to be my happy place. Work happens here, and hobbies happen in our Makerspace, so there's a bit of separation. My home office truly represents me, from my purple iMac to the tons of books and card decks with creativity and facilitation techniques, with a Peter Lik photo behind me of a sunset on the water, and bookshelves my husband made for me — its just me. I'm also a fan of working from a coffee shop when I have something to do like writing. My husband and I usually do this together on Saturdays or Sundays.
What I Can Share. Well I certainly am a design thinking, Miro, and facilitation nerd. In particular I run a Miro Community Group about Designing Experiences in Miro - so if you have any Miro questions throw them at me! I am also part of the Core Community team over at Butter so if you have questions about Butter ;) send those my way too! Overall anything you might want to know about creativity or engagement in workshops or how to create those immersive experiences, I would love to chat about (for ever and ever)
Looking Forward To. The connections. Knowledge is only power when shared. Meeting new people and learning new approaches and methods is so interesting to me. I find inspiration every where to weave into my own work, and am hoping I can share some of that inspiration back to others.
This Brings Me Joy. I really love being able to spend time with my husband and pups. My husband and I are currently launching a YouTube channel, so being able to research and set up our own YouTube studio here in our house (our Guest room we turned into a Makerspace) is SO MUCH FUN! We hope to launch our first videos in the next month.
Connect With Me.
On LinkedIn
On Polywork